For the best part of three decades management held the upper hand.
- The employee relations model is ill suited to the reality that demographics are not supportive of adversarial relations.
- Governments were happy for real wages to decline, that is why wage growth is effectively nil. Employers outsourced, used 457 type visas and fear to control labour unit cost.
These two points have driven many new pilots (and new graduates) elsewhere as terms and conditions no longer provide a reasonable return on investment. One might quip the 'model' was too successful.
As it is in Europe and the USA, it is now in Australia:
Qualified Pilots are in short supply.
This is another ill conceived, hastily cobbled together sound bite with as much substance as his other 'game changing' announcements.
The tide is turning.